Making Designer Mixed-Media and Memory Jewelry: Fun and Experimental Techniques and Materials for the Home Studio

Yesterday felt so good I didn’t talk to a soul hardly all day. Besides taking the phone call from Travis in the morning saying he was not coming in to work and saying good night to Chris when he got home from band practice after midnight I was all alone all day. I love days like that I feel like I get so much done. I watched Marie Antoinette, made a ton of jewelry and finished putting away all my treasures from the flea market. Another chore I did is to organize my book shelves. I know that sounds random, but it is something I have been meaning to do for a long time.

You might be asking yourself why. Well I have book shelves in 4 different rooms in my house so all my books are everywhere and I have a hard time finding what I am looking for. In my bedroom I put all my business and gardening books. Plus photo albums, old journals and random fiction. In the spare bedroom are all my old books on feminism, philosophy books and other random left overs from college. In the living room I put together all my books on music, art, collecting, home decorating, crafting, fashion and jewelry making. See this arrangement makes perfect sense to me.



When I was putting together the jewelry section I realized I have never really blogged about the new book I am called Making Designer Mixed-Media and Memory Jewelry: Fun and Experimental Techniques and Materials for the Home Studio. It is the first book pictured in the above little menagerie of books I have been in. The book is written by Tammy Powley and has some great pieces. I have 3 pieces featured in the gallery in the back of the book. Besides myself you can also see two Craft Lab guests with projects in the book Maya Brenner and Julia Andrus.



Unlike yesterday I will be talking to a lot of people today. Travis will be here in an hour. I have a Stitch meeting at 5 and then an Austin Craft Mafia meeting at 7. Oh well it was good to be a recluse for one day.